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ads-tec Industrial IT: Multiple Vulnerabilities in ADS-TEC IRF Products

VDE-2026-076
Last update
07/28/2026 12:00
Published at
07/28/2026 12:00
Vendor(s)
ads-tec Industrial IT GmbH
External ID
VDE-2026-076
CSAF Document

Summary

The ADS-TEC IRF1000 and IRF3000 products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities in firmware releases prior to 2.3.0: authorization, robustness and redirect flaws in the proprietary configuration interface and web UI, and multiple vulnerabilities in the bundled third-party components dnsmasq, OpenSC and OpenSSL. All are fixed in firmware 2.3.0.

Impact

Depending on the flaw, an authenticated user can escalate to administrator privileges, lock out a user account or crash the configuration service and a post-login redirect enables phishing. The bundled third-party components add DNS cache-poisoning / denial of service (dnsmasq), a physical-access smart-card stack overflow (OpenSC) and denial-of-service issues in OpenSSL reachable only by locally parsing crafted PKCS#12/PKCS#7/timestamp input.

Affected Product(s)

Model no. Product name Affected versions
DVG-IRF1401 DVG-IRF1401 IRF1000 Firmware <2.3.0, IRF1000 Firmware >=2.2.5, <2.3.0
DVG-IRF1421 DVG-IRF1421 IRF1000 Firmware <2.3.0, IRF1000 Firmware >=2.2.5, <2.3.0
DVG-IRF3401 DVG-IRF3401 IRF3000 Firmware <2.3.0, IRF3000 Firmware >=2.2.5, <2.3.0
DVG-IRF3421 DVG-IRF3421 IRF3000 Firmware <2.3.0, IRF3000 Firmware >=2.2.5, <2.3.0
DVG-IRF3801 DVG-IRF3801 IRF3000 Firmware <2.3.0, IRF3000 Firmware >=2.2.5, <2.3.0
DVG-IRF3821 DVG-IRF3821 IRF3000 Firmware <2.3.0, IRF3000 Firmware >=2.2.5, <2.3.0

Vulnerabilities

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Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
Summary

A low privileged remote attacker can gain administrator privileges due to missing authorization at the insert path of the configuration table resulting in gaining full system access.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
Summary

A low privileged remote attacker can perform privileged configuration changes reserved for the administrator level including permission management due to incorrect authorization.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Incorrect Behavior Order (CWE-696)
Summary

Due to incorrect behavior order a low privileged remote attacker could trigger account inconsistent state via crafted input and overwrites existing user passwords which could result in complete administrative unavailability of the device.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)
Summary

Issue summary: Processing a malformed PKCS#12 file can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex() function.

Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application processing PKCS#12 files.

The vulnerability is limited to Denial of Service and cannot be escalated to achieve code execution or memory disclosure. Exploiting this issue requires an attacker to provide a malformed PKCS#12 file to an application that processes it.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CWE-754)
Summary

Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the TimeStamp Response verification code where an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing a malformed TimeStamp Response file.

Impact summary: An application calling TS_RESP_verify_response() with a malformed TimeStamp Response can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer when reading, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to provide a malformed TimeStamp Response to an application that verifies timestamp responses.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0 and 1.1.1 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not affected.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
Summary

Issue summary: Calling PKCS12_get_friendlyname() function on a maliciously crafted PKCS#12 file with a BMPString (UTF-16BE) friendly name containing non-ASCII BMP code point can trigger a one byte write before the allocated buffer.

Impact summary: The out-of-bounds write can cause a memory corruption which can have various consequences including a Denial of Service.

The vulnerability is reachable via the public PKCS12_get_friendlyname() API when parsing attacker-controlled PKCS#12 files.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0 and 1.1.1 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not affected.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
Summary

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq's extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record's end.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190)
Summary

dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') (CWE-601)
Summary

An unauthenticated remote attacker can abuse the improper validation of the post-login redirect of the web-UI to trick users to a malicious website. This can result in a loss of confidentiality and availability.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CWE-754)
Summary

Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in an application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file.

Impact summary: An application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer on memory read, resulting in a Denial of Service.

A type confusion vulnerability exists in PKCS#12 parsing code where an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid pointer read constrained to a 1-byte address space, which reliably results in a crash on most modern operating systems.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0 and 1.1.1 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not affected.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions (CWE-754)
Summary

Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the signature verification of signed PKCS#7 data where an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing malformed PKCS#7 data.

Impact summary: An application performing signature verification of PKCS#7 data or calling directly the PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() function can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer when reading, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Exploiting this vulnerability requires an attacker to provide a malformed signed PKCS#7 to an application that verifies it.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Improper Authentication (CWE-287)
Summary

An information disclosure vulnerability in dnsmasq allows remote attackers to bypass source checks via a crafted DNS packet with RFC 7871 client subnet information.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
Summary

Issue summary: Writing large, newline-free data into a BIO chain using the line-buffering filter where the next BIO performs short writes can trigger a heap-based out-of-bounds write.

Impact summary: This out-of-bounds write can cause memory corruption which typically results in a crash, leading to Denial of Service for an application.

The line-buffering BIO filter (BIO_f_linebuffer) is not used by default in TLS/SSL data paths. Exploitation requires an application that explicitly uses this filter with a BIO chain that can short-write and that writes large, newline-free data influenced by an attacker.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Missing Cryptographic Step (CWE-325)
Summary

Issue summary: When using the low-level OCB API directly with AES-NI or other hardware-accelerated code paths, inputs whose length is not a multiple of 16 bytes can leave the final partial block unencrypted and unauthenticated.

Impact summary: The trailing 1-15 bytes of a message may be exposed in cleartext on encryption and are not covered by the authentication tag, allowing an attacker to read or tamper with those bytes without detection.

Typical OpenSSL consumers using the EVP API are not affected because the higher-level EVP and provider OCB implementations process full and partial blocks separately. TLS does not use OCB ciphersuites. Only applications that call the low-level CRYPTO_ocb128_encrypt() or CRYPTO_ocb128_decrypt() functions directly with non-block-aligned lengths on hardware-accelerated builds are affected.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0 and 1.1.1 are vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not affected.

References

Published
07/28/2026 11:10
Weakness
Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)
Summary

OpenSC before 0.27.0-rc1, fixed in commit 3f24f0b, contains a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in piv_process_history() in src/libopensc/card-piv.c that allows physically present attackers to trigger memory corruption by presenting a crafted PIV smart card or USB device returning a URL field longer than 118 bytes in the Key History Object ASN.1 response.

References

Mitigation

Restrict access to the configuration interface / web UI to trusted administrators and trusted networks, and do not grant the user/permission-management write permission to non-administrator roles.

Remediation

Update to firmware IRF1000 v2.3.0, IRF3000 v2.3.0 or later.

Acknowledgments

ads-tec Industrial IT GmbH thanks the following parties for their efforts:

Revision History

Version Date Summary
1.0.0 07/28/2026 12:00 Initial release